Tribute to our Grandma...

Why do the grandparents become the most important person / icon in a family? Well, it can be easily answered by: They are the most experienced people in the family... Ok, fair enough, this is a reasonable answer, but sometimes people don´t consider them the most important, or at least don´t treat them as they were.

Actually, their importance is unquestionable, once if they weren't there, nobody else would be there too. But when they are really the most important, they influence the life of everyone that has given birth out of their DNA. Some of them will be too young to realise the influence their grandparents or great-grandparents had over their lives.

9th March is my grandmother's anniversary and she asked us to make a big party, so we did. It was amazing, I never felt that way with my family before, was a great experience. All her children homenagiate her saying what they were feeling at that moment, no word has been written down beforehand.

The grandsons (including myself, the youngest of them), too many to speak one by one, made a tribute, singing one her favourite's song. More than 20 people singing... two guitars (out of tune) and one flute playing.

Well, not the best players, not the best guitar and flute, far from good singers... but, absolutely, the best feeling...

Singer: Luiz Gonzaga
Music: Asa Branca (White wing)
Album:
Released: 1947






This is not the translation. This is a version in english composed by an brasilian singer, Raul Seixas. The idea of the original lyrics has been preseverd.

White Wings

When i stare the ground of
My land
Burning loose as dancing flames
I asked man there upon
The heavens
If i deserve me this kind of pain
I asked the man there upon
The heavens
If i deserve me this kind of pain
Everywhere the ground is so dry
There's no trees, no green, just red
I lost my cattle, my apaloosa
For lack of water some took away
I lost my cattle, my apaloosa
For lack of water some took away
Even white winged birds flew away
Flew away from my land sight
It was when i said goodbye
Sweet rosie
Keep in to your heart, this heart
Of mine
It was when i said goodbye
Sweet rosie
Keep in to your heart, this heart
Of mine
Many thousands miles away, now
Feeling lonely, lost and blue
I keep on waiting rain falls again there
So i'll be back thou home again
I keep on waiting rain falls again there
So i'll be back thou home again
When the glow green of your eyes
Flows again all over land
I can asure you, so don't
You cry, no
'cause i'll be back, see
To you again!!
I can asure you, so don't
You cry, no
'cause i'll be back, see
To you again!!

Pavarotti, Carreras and Domingo...

I was just kid when this cd was released but I remember it pretty well.

The compact disc was spreading in Brazil and we finally bought our first CD player. Months later my father bought a big stereo for the living room, and we won two cds with it: Daniela Mercuri - A Canto da Cidade, e The 3 Tenors - in Concert.

All the songs from this CD reminds me that time, but I think there's no better music to put here than Brazil.

Artist: The 3 Tenors
Music: All, specially Brazil
Album: The 3 Tenors - in Concert
Released: 1994

Soundtrack Kick-off - R.E.M.

It isn't long time ago that I was a kid, even though is hard to remember when I heard this song for the very first time.

I can't remember very well, but when I was 7, 8 years old, I used to have a yellow pocket radio. It was really simple and cheap, but it was my first "musical friend".

I was in the kitchen with my father, listening to the radio while he was reading the newspaper when this song played, and I felt really weird. It felt as I was really enjoying and loving a song for the first time, that everything before that was only a mere passion, simply meaningless.

I need to assume that I'm not a big R.E.M. fan, but this song is definitely part of my Lifespan Soundtrack, it's where it starts.

You may like it too, I can guess...

About my Music...

Music lasts more than a lifespan, music is more than only one soundtrack...

This blog is written by me, Homero Carmona, and will present all the music of my life! Some affected my life positively, some others negatively, but most of them simply changed the way I live and think, but, the greater majority is just what I am...

The first one, which is completely about me, couldn't be other but one of my songs!

I hope you all enjoy it!




Goodbye Sao Paulo (Translation)

A whole year thinking about you
And the trip we are going to do
Tired of so much work, confusion and somewhat more

What can I do?
Maybe go crazy
Run away, disappear or...

From the moments we're going to face there
I wish you could come with us
Memories won't go away
But will surely make us think of...

The times with you
Conquests, leisure and pleasure
Tears will fall
Gratitude

To be happy, every day of my life
Trying to find out, if in you I can find
Goodbye Sao Paulo

It's not that easy find out
That I spend a shit time, without acknowledge
But I'm ready to change, to be capable, bold, shrewd
And maybe, kill...

Everything I miss
My wishes
My faults
And try

To be happy, every day of my life
Trying to find out, if in you I can find
Goodbye Sao Paulo